2001: A Space Odyssey
The classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves.
2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt
The English speaking world rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that “disbelievers” have bestowed upon humanity. Churchmen generally contend that great figures in history, such as America’s founders, were conventional believers. But author James A. Haught demonstrates that this just isn’t true. In 2000 Years Of Disbelief: Famous People With The Courage To Doubt, […]
1984
War is peace.Freedom is slavery.And Big Brother is watching… Thought Police. Big Brother. Orwellian. These words have become part of our national vocabulary because of George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, the story of one man’s nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual […]
Christianity and Agnosticism
A Controversy Consisting of Papers By: Henry Wace, D.D.; Prof. Thomas H. Huxley; The Bishop of Peterborough; W. H. Mallock; and Mrs. Humphry Ward. NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1889 The undisputed interest taken in the recent controversy between the Rev. Dr. Henry Wace, Principal of King’s College, London, and Prof. Huxley, over the […]
Convention of the National Liberal League
(1879) Robert Green Ingersoll Cincinnati, Ohio, September 14, 1879 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Allow me to say that the cause nearest my heart, and to which I am willing to devote the remainder of my life, is the absolute, the absolute, enfranchisement of the human mind. I believe that the family is the unit of good […]
Thomas Paine Origin Free Masonry
[NOTE: This essay appeared in New York, 1818, with an anonymous preface of which I quote the opening paragraph: “This tract is a chapter belonging to the Third Part of the “Age of Reason,” as will be seen by the references made in it to preceding articles, as forming part of the same work. It […]
Thomas Paine Age Of Reason Letters
I. AN ANSWER TO A FRIEND PARIS, May 12, 1797 IN your letter of the 20th of March, you give me several quotations from the Bible, which you call the ‘word of God,’ to shew me that my opinions on religion are wrong, and I could give you as many, from the same book to […]
Candide
1759 CANDIDE by Voltaire CHAPTER 1 How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of […]